Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Perry Anderson
• Gabriele Annan
• David Blackbourn
• Sophia de Mello Breyner
• James Davidson
• Ruth Fainlight
• P.N. Furbank
• Conor Gearty
• Ian Hamilton
• Eric Hobsbawm
• Alan Ryan
• Lorna Scott Fox
• Charles Simic
• Stephen Smith
• Lawrence Stone
• E.S. Turner
• Hugo Young

Contents

• Perry Anderson
  The Dark Side of Brazilian Conviviality

• Letters
  K. Sinclair-Loutit, J.A.G. Griffith, Lawrence Beyer, Hope Robinson, James MacGibbon, Gerald Pollinger, Joshua Landy, Robert Cunliffe, Bernard Cashman, Wendy Doniger, Larry Rhodes

• Sophia de Mello Breyner translated by Ruth Fainlight
  Poem: ‘Writing’

• Alan Ryan

  • The Principle of Duty by David Selbourne

• Lawrence Stone

  • The Making of Victorian Sexuality by Michael Mason
  • The Making of Victorian Sexual Attitudes by Michael Mason

• James Davidson

  • The Wilde Century: Effeminacy, Oscar Wilde and the Queer Moment by Alan Sinfield
  • Cultural Politics: Queer Reading by Alan Sinfield
  • Hellenism and Homosexuality in Victorian Oxford by Linda Dowling

• Charles Simic
  Four Poems

• P.N. Furbank

  • The Gentle Art of Making Enemies by James McNeill Whistler
  • James McNeill Whistler: Beyond the Myth by Ronald Anderson and Anne Koval

• E.S. Turner

  • A Passion for Wings: Aviation and the Western Imagination, 1908-1918 by Robert Wohl

• Hugo Young

  • The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe by Colm Tóibín

• David Blackbourn

  • Prussia: The Perversion of an Idea by Giles MacDonogh

• Gabriele Annan

  • Sad Strains of a Gay Waltz by Irene Dische

• Stephen Smith goes to Cuba and tries to get his books out of the library

• Lorna Scott Fox

  • Mea Cuba by G. Cabrera Infante, translated by Kenneth Hall
  • Before Night Falls by Reinaldo Arenas, translated by Dolores Koch

• Ian Hamilton

  • Venables: The Autobiography by Terry Venables and Neil Hanson

• Conor Gearty
  Diary

• Eric Hobsbawm

  • The Duke Ellington Reader edited by Mark Tucker
  • Swing Changes: Big-Band Jazz in New Deal America by David Stowe